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@scottalanmiller said in ChromeOS vs Linux:

@gjacobse said in ChromeOS vs Linux:

Have I managed to mislead myself in believing that the two - while different - are in a basic manner, the same

Basically, yes. In essence, the kernel provides basic compatibility and underlying behaviour (task switching, memory resource management) allowing you to gauge performance, security and application compatibility (that is for binaries.)

But NOTHING that people think of as a system is its kernel. If you put the GNU utils on top of Windows, literally no one can tell. Is it Linux? Nope, it's Windows!

Test this with the Ubuntu for Windows in the Windows 11 Store. It'll install Ubuntu for you to run on your Windows workstation. It will look and feel exactly like Ubuntu you are used to. It IS Ubuntu. What it is not, is Linux, at all. It's 100% Windows, just with the Ubuntu user interface on top, rather than the Windows Desktop interface.

There's no Linux, whatsoever. The Linux Subsystem for Windows is an API compatibility layer NOT an implementation of Linux.

You're thinking of WSL 1. If you follow your instructions that should be WSL 2, which does use the Linux kernel

Well it looks like EKS and GKE support Windows nodes, so you could deploy it as a container there, but then you're paying for a whole cluster. Or they could rewrite enough to upgrade to the latest .Net and not have to run on Windows.

@Obsolesce said in Staying in Ethics and Legal with ChatGPT usage?:

@scottalanmiller said in Staying in Ethics and Legal with ChatGPT usage?:

@Obsolesce said in Staying in Ethics and Legal with ChatGPT usage?:

@scottalanmiller said in Staying in Ethics and Legal with ChatGPT usage?:

But not plagiarism

Right, it's never plagiarism unless you for example tell chatgpt to output copyrighted content, like tell me the exact content of xyz, such as an existing book.... If it can do that or close to that. Then use that content in the same as if you copy word for word from the book. In that case you are.

Right, exactly.

I asked ChatGPT about it directly, and it said this:

As an AI language model, I am a form of technology that generates text based on the input I receive from users. While I am not a human being, the text I generate is still considered someone else's work.

In the case of using my output as your own, it would be considered plagiarism if you do not properly attribute the text you generated through me. This is because the text I generate is based on a combination of machine learning algorithms and vast amounts of pre-existing text data that has been created by humans. Therefore, failing to properly cite the sources of the text you generate through me would be equivalent to not citing the sources of any other work created by human authors.

In summary, failing to attribute the text generated through an AI language model like myself can be considered plagiarism, even though the output comes from a machine rather than a person.

ME:

You said "can" be considered plagiarism. In what cases is it not considered plagiarism?

ChatGPT:

It's important to note that the issue of whether or not using text generated through an AI language model is considered plagiarism can be a complex one, and there is no clear-cut answer that applies to all situations. In general, however, it is not considered plagiarism to use text generated through an AI language model if:

• You use the text only as a starting point or source of inspiration, and you substantially reword or rewrite the text in your own words.

• You use the text as a secondary source, and you properly cite both the AI language model as the source of the text and any other sources that you drew upon to create your own work.

• The text generated by the AI language model is in the public domain or has been released under a Creative Commons license that allows for reuse and modification.

In any case, it is always important to use your best judgment and consult with a teacher, professor, or other authority on academic integrity if you have any doubts about whether or not your use of text generated through an AI language model could be considered plagiarism.

ME:

Outside of academics is the same true?

ChatGPT :

Yes, the same principles of attribution and integrity apply outside of academics as well. While the consequences of plagiarism may not be as severe as in an academic or commercial context, it is still considered unethical and can damage your reputation and credibility in a given field.

If you are using text generated through an AI language model for non-academic purposes, it is still important to properly attribute the source of the text and obtain permission if necessary. Additionally, if you are using the text to create a product or service that you plan to sell, you should be particularly careful to ensure that you are not infringing on any copyrights or other intellectual property rights.

In summary, whether you are using text generated through an AI language model for academic or non-academic purposes, it is important to adhere to principles of attribution and integrity, and to always consult with appropriate authorities or legal experts if you have any doubts or questions.

Me:

Is it considered plagiarism outside of academics and commercial use?

ChatGPT :

Yes, using someone else's work or ideas without proper attribution or permission is still considered plagiarism even outside of academic or commercial use. Plagiarism is a violation of intellectual property rights and can be a legal issue in some cases.

For example, if you were to copy someone else's creative work, such as a piece of writing, artwork, or music, and present it as your own without permission or attribution, it would be considered plagiarism and could result in legal action being taken against you.

In general, it is important to always give credit to the original source of any work or ideas you use, whether in an academic or non-academic setting. This not only helps you avoid plagiarism but also shows respect for the work of others and can help build a stronger culture of collaboration and creativity.

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That all said, I did confirm that although plagiarism is not a criminal or civil offense, plagiarism is illegal if it infringes an author's intellectual property rights, including copyright or trademark.

Next ask it why it doesn't give attributions for the preexisting test it uses.

System Engineer - Project Manager. You're try to appeal to multiple disciplines here. I'd create a different resume if you were applying to a Project Management job and focus on making this one look the part for engineering.

Bullet points are your friend

@CCWTech yes, it's your resume. And anytime I've seen a tech resume that someone said they paid a professional to help write, it hasn't been good.

Free help from other tech professionals is usually the way to go. Here is one community that can help https://discord.gg/CB8DMrr

@dbeato said in What to use for new Windows network domain:

@flaxking Well the point was that Jared was making of a local network domain which Azure Active Directory wouldn't have counted but I understand.

I wasn't talking about AAD, I was talking about AAD DS.

@dbeato yes, Azure Active Directory Domain Services. That documentarion changed from aadds.contoso.com to aaddscontoso.com. But since they don't give the reason for the change, it is unclear if the reason applies to both aadds and ad.

The only reason I know of is so that AD isn't displayed as the domain name in places.

Well Microsoft's AAD DS recommendation has changed from aadds.contoso.com to aaddscontoso.com but I don't think they have really said why

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-domain-services/tutorial-create-instance#create-a-managed-domain

@stacksofplates said in Slack? What is it?:

@flaxking said in Slack? What is it?:

At it's core Slack is a chat app. Think Teams without video calls or SharePoint integration.

Slack has had video/audio calls for a while now.

Interesting, I've only noticed the "Huddle" option, and have never used it.

At it's core Slack is a chat app. Think Teams without video calls or SharePoint integration.

It's also kind of treated like a shared mailbox. I.e. a channel will get sent alerts, and that's how people get notified and can talk about it right at the alert.

"ChatOps" is kind of the next step here where with integrations and bots, you can trigger actions from right within Slack. A benefit of this is that the log of the action and the conversation surrounding it is all logged in the same place. Someone looking back at what was done could see the whole history of events (alert raised, talk that something should be done about it, and the action being done triggered and recorded right there)

I have never heard of Slack being the only interface for something except for internal tools. It makes the most sense to use it for integrations when you're already having conversations there, but maybe the benefits of having the action log and the ability for different people using the integration to leave notes in the chat could mean it could be worth it to use if there are not other tools that does the same thing.

@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

@flaxking said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

@flaxking said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

Using my own personal laptop for work if a good way to ensure that I don't do my own tech stuff when I'm not working. I dual booted so that my work OS was completely separate, but I still didn't want to touch that thing after work.

You only do IT at work and never because you find it fun or interesting or want to grow outside of job promotions?

I can't imagine wanting to work in IT at all, with all the drama, stress, hard work.. if I didn't love IT itself. There are so many better fields that are less demanding if it is only a job and not a career that you want to do regardless of the job.

It's about the association. If I do something on the side, it can be a fun project for me, but I don't want my purely fun projects mingling with my work. Though, having a family now and always being on the edge of everything falling into chaos, a lot of my fun learning does happen at work, but I am being paid for it. We have bookclub (and often the reading for it) during work hours. I can take whole days for person all development or just arrange certain mornings for it.

This touches on a completely (or almost) difference subject. The concept of on/off work/personal time and mingled time. For many of us, fun and work have to mingle whether it's because of scheduling, or because the things we like to do and work are essentially the same thing. Like write now, I'm not at work but writing about work stuff.

For us, and this is different by organization and jurisdiction, we operate in an environment where we are free legally to do anything to the benefit of the employees. There aren't any strong employer organizations manipulating the government into making sneaking anti-labor laws under the guise of protecting employees (e.g. New York's unpaid lunch laws for blue collar workers that are used to guarantee longer working days at lower cost for factories - the employers benefit, the employees suffer, but they claim it's employee protection to indemnify the employers who pushed for it.) So we are able to make healthy mingled environments where employees can effortlessly mix work and personal life.

At a bad company (or in a bad country) that might sound like trying to make people work all of the time. But at a good company, in a good jurisdiction, it's making people never have to shut off their personal lives.

For us, the lengths that we go to to ensure our teams are passionate, also allows us to go to great lengths to protect their personal lives and time and space. Unlimited vacation time transparently turns into nine month maternity leaves, zero locational requirement means "full time travel options". Bring your own devices means creating your own workspaces that are best for you. People work when it makes sense, and stop when it doesn't.

It may be separate from the point you were originally trying to make, but if you're looking at the whole picture trying to figure out where people make the demarcation, it's definitely part of the conversation.

Things like computers and phones and be really personal devices, stuff like your internet connection, less so.

Even when a company have unlimited vacation and actually mean it, they need to create a culture that gets people to actually use it. Super passionate people are less likely to take advantage of it, even when it would benefit them personally.

A company that provides a workstation can help create a culture where people can turn work off and on at their own time. For me, if I'm on my work computer not doing real work, seeing a notification pop up can be really distracting and consume my thoughts, even if there was no expectation for me to be working. Not that I can't think about work while I'm not at work, but some separation is definitely beneficial.

@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

@flaxking said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

@flaxking if you watch the video, you'll notice that the primary point isn't that you shouldn't provide equipment for people, but should only do so when it makes sense. BUT that your candidates should have the resources to do IT at home, regardless of it you expect them to use them or not.

At NTG, we do provide people's work environments most of the time (unless they don't want to use our stuff.) We provide the router/firewall, desktop, phone, etc. But we only do so to people who already have that stuff, too. We just provide better, or more appropriately designed and managed, work hardware.

We look for that passion. I absolutely am not going to pay to provide work equipment to someone that doesn't want to do this kind of work. That guarantees I'll have to motivate solely with money and will never get the kind of growth and long term healthy future that we look for.

Of course, we are also a "hire for life" employer, not a "hire for a task and see if we need you after that task is done" employer. We don't hire people for a role, we hire people who are passionate and that's about

So the thing is, for 95% of the companies I would apply for, it would make sense that they supplied the computer. Most likely for security requirements. Kind of like how for most people you interview, it would make sense that they own a computer. I wouldn't rule out the 5% because they might have a good reason they don't, but

I'm not a big believer in the security argument. Especially not in IT. I understand the premise, if you control the equipment tightly, you can lock it down. But we're IT, we HAVE to trust our staff already and we don't put any data on their machines (assigned... whether their machines or our machines, on endpoints that they use) anyway, so the entire point is locking down a browser or terminal. If they are going to hack that, they will do so regardless. Since we hire professionals we trust that they are securing things a bit as well. The exposure risk is very minimal as there are so many steps between them and data and always "closed glass."

And the situation where no data is getting onto the system is what would be a rate situation in the tech companies I would potentially work for. It's often still a situation where the decentralized work stations providing compute is still cheaper than centralizing it. The workstation isn't a perk, the alternative of centralized compute is more expensive. That might be changing with stuff like dev containers getting traction, but regulations are also slow to change.

@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

@flaxking if you watch the video, you'll notice that the primary point isn't that you shouldn't provide equipment for people, but should only do so when it makes sense. BUT that your candidates should have the resources to do IT at home, regardless of it you expect them to use them or not.

At NTG, we do provide people's work environments most of the time (unless they don't want to use our stuff.) We provide the router/firewall, desktop, phone, etc. But we only do so to people who already have that stuff, too. We just provide better, or more appropriately designed and managed, work hardware.

We look for that passion. I absolutely am not going to pay to provide work equipment to someone that doesn't want to do this kind of work. That guarantees I'll have to motivate solely with money and will never get the kind of growth and long term healthy future that we look for.

Of course, we are also a "hire for life" employer, not a "hire for a task and see if we need you after that task is done" employer. We don't hire people for a role, we hire people who are passionate and that's about

So the thing is, for 95% of the companies I would apply for, it would make sense that they supplied the computer. Most likely for security requirements. Kind of like how for most people you interview, it would make sense that they own a computer. I wouldn't rule out the 5% because they might have a good reason they don't, but

@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

@flaxking said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

Using my own personal laptop for work if a good way to ensure that I don't do my own tech stuff when I'm not working. I dual booted so that my work OS was completely separate, but I still didn't want to touch that thing after work.

You only do IT at work and never because you find it fun or interesting or want to grow outside of job promotions?

I can't imagine wanting to work in IT at all, with all the drama, stress, hard work.. if I didn't love IT itself. There are so many better fields that are less demanding if it is only a job and not a career that you want to do regardless of the job.

It's about the association. If I do something on the side, it can be a fun project for me, but I don't want my purely fun projects mingling with my work. Though, having a family now and always being on the edge of everything falling into chaos, a lot of my fun learning does happen at work, but I am being paid for it. We have bookclub (and often the reading for it) during work hours. I can take whole days for person all development or just arrange certain mornings for it.

@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

@flaxking said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

Providing my own laptop would be a red flag for me too. After having worked at companies that either provided or didn't provide, those that's don't provide tend to violate that boundary of it being yours. One company even expected to install VeraCryptto meet SOC 2 requirements, lmao.

That's different, though. Don't conflate "expect you to have" with "expect to manage." Those are two totally different concepts.

It wouldn't be a red flag if they expected me to have a laptop, just if they expected me to use my laptop for work. Kinda of like an entry level person with a homelab is more likely to be hired, but if they expected them to start hosting work stuff in the lab that would definitely be a screw you situation.

Providing my own laptop would be a red flag for me too. After having worked at companies that either provided or didn't provide, those that's don't provide tend to violate that boundary of it being yours. One company even expected to install VeraCryptto meet SOC 2 requirements, lmao.

Using my own personal laptop for work if a good way to ensure that I don't do my own tech stuff when I'm not working. I dual booted so that my work OS was completely separate, but I still didn't want to touch that thing after work.

GAM that's what it was!
https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM

Looks like they've made some improvements, back in the day it was one giant py file, lol.

I did this years ago, there was some python app I used in order to script it.

Jabra Evolve 20 is a good basic headset. Microphone quality is great, but leaves a little to be desired conform-wise. Could be good for frist time.

@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

I have Steam Keys available for Elder Scrolls Morrowind

and Dark Eye: Memoria if anybody wants them.

I've been playing a lot of Morrowind multiplayer recently (TES3MP)